Table 1.
The type, number, and incidence of healthcare-associated infections (HAI), patient sex and age, number of days until the onset of HAI, length of hospital stay, mortality in ICU in 2016–2019.
| HAI Type | BSI | PN | UTI | LRI | GI-CDI * | SST | SYS | Total | p-Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of HAI n (%) | 209 (38.7%) |
131 (24.2) | 110 (20.3) | 43 (7.9) |
25 (4.6) |
15 (2.7) |
7 (1.2) |
540 | n/a |
| Incidence | 6.9 | 4.3 | 3.6 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 17.8 | n/a |
| Incidence density (per 1000 pds) | 7.9 | 4.9 | 4.1 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 20.3 | n/a |
| Patient age (years) Mean (95% CI) | 61 (58–63) |
61 (59–64) |
54 (50–58) |
55 (49–62) |
62 (53–70) |
68 (61–75) |
53 (35–72) |
59 (58–61) |
<0.05 |
| Days of ICU stay Mean (95% CI) |
56 (46–65) |
40 (35–45) |
52 (41–63) |
34 (29–40) |
35 (28–41) |
48 (38–57) |
37 (25–49) |
48 (43–52) |
0.062 |
| Days until HAI onset Mean (95% CI) | 31 (23–38) |
19 (15–23) |
31 (21–41) |
14 (11–18) |
13 (9–17) |
27 (18–35) |
13 (6–19) |
25 (22–29) |
<0.05 |
| Death n (%) | 36 (17.2) |
24 (18.2) | 9 (8.2) |
9 (21.4) |
7 (28.0) |
1 (6.7) |
0 (0.0) |
86 (15.9) | <0.05 |
| Patient sex | |||||||||
| Female n (%) | 77 (36.8) |
43 (31.8) | 42 (38.2) | 10 (23.8) | 8 (32.0) |
4 (26.7) |
3 (42.9) |
186 (34.4) | 0.688 |
| Male n (%) | 132 (63.2) |
89 (68.2) | 68 (61.8) | 33 (76.2) | 17 (68.0) | 11 (73.3) | 4 (57.1) |
354 (65.5) | |
Number of patients = 3028, Number of patient-days of stay = 26,558, Clostridioides difficile (CDI) 25 cases *(CDI/100 admissions = 0.8; CDI/1000 = 0.9; CDI/10,000 = 9.4), 95%CI—95% confidence intervals for the mean, number (n), not applicable (n/a), healthcare-associated infections (HAI), bloodstream infection (BSI), pneumonia (PN), urinary tract infection (UTI), lower respiratory tract infection (LRI), gastrointestinal infection (GI) Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), skin and soft tissue (SST), systemic infection (SYS).